Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese proverb.
The news out of the BLS this morning: two years of growth. Hashtag: progress.
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good:
New Yorkers have the highest life expectancy in the nation. Why? They smoke less, walk more, and have more friends and neighbors. And because of a bunch of other reasons. Guess it’s time to put those “urban health penalty” myths to rest.
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The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Go read this, it’s wonderful.
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By now the sound of metal on asphalt is well known to Americans. It’s the sound of the can being kicked down the road by our feckless lawmakers. The latest can to be booted, of course, is that $1.2 trillion in debt reduction the super committee was supposed to have come up with by…
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